I shall make sure, as the Constitution orders me to do, that the laws of the Union are obeyed in all the states.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

And you think that's because our constitution that protects it? I mean do you think... I think to a very considerable extent, it is.

你觉得这要归功于我们宪法,对言论自由的保护？还是说。,我觉得在一定程度上是的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So I would say the tradition goes back to the 18th century not even to the constitution.

我认为这个传统可以回溯到,十九世纪，甚至在宪法出现之前。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"I therefore believe that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is not broken.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

I just believe in a very limited form of democracy whereby we have a constitution that severely limits the scope of what decisions can be made democratically.

我只是支持有限民主,通过宪法来严格限制,可以由民主决议的事项范围。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I believe that under universal law and the Constitution, the Union of these states is permanent.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

All right, July, 1913, blow this up, so On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules by N. Bohr, Doctor of Philosophy, Copenhagen, asterisk here, and I've blown up the bottom of the page, communicated by Professor Ernest Rutherford, F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal Society.

913年，六月，发表了，波尔博士,建立了原子分子模型，哥本哈根，星号这儿，我通过和恩内斯特卢瑟福的交流，被这页底部的所震惊了，英国皇家学会会员。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"And I can tell you as a member of the United States Congress, we understand the Constitution,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.07

It's not merely a negative thing the way I think modern ideas about law, as for instance, represented in the American Constitution are, which is to say, its function is to prevent wrong doing, to punish wrong doing.

我的理解是,这里的法律,不仅仅指当今的法律条款,比如美国宪法所代表的那些内容,也就是,行使防范错误行为,以及惩罚错误行为的职能

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"I do not understand it. They think they are Americans, they think they are upholding the Constitution, and they are literally suggesting that violent acts be undertaken against the government."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

And that's why I would've voted against the Constitution, I encouraged people to vote against the Constitution, and I know almost nobody, except professors in Paris and Lyon, who are for that Constitution that was defeated a year ago May twenty-ninth-- so,there.

这就是我为什么投票反对欧盟宪法条约,我鼓励人们投反对票,我知道除了那些巴黎和里昂的学究们,几乎没人支持,欧盟宪法条约,而他们在一年前的五月二十九日落败,就是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The inevitable conclusion that I reach and I believe any sensible reader of Aristotle would reach is that Aristotle in fact discovered the American Constitution 1 500 or 2 000 years before it was written.

但会得到结论,且我相信,任何敏感的亚里士多德读者都会得到的结论是,亚里士多德，事实上,早在美国宪法写就之前的,1，500，或，2，000，年即已创建。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But that may simply be our own prejudice to think that my friend at Peter Simpson the CUNY Graduate Center Peter Simpson has argued in a paper that I found quite convincing that Aristotle had in fact discovered the American Constitution.

但那么想可能只是我们自己的偏见,我任教于,纽约，CUNY，研究中心的友人,他在其文章中主张,而我觉得十分具有说服力,他说亚里士多德,事实上，早就创建了美国宪法。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选